Kids really are slower growing up now

OTTAWA
— A new study suggests that children are taking longer to grow
up these days.

The Statistics Canada study says young
adults took longer to “make key life transitions to adulthood”
in 2001 than their counterparts were three decades earlier.

The study used census data from 1971 and
2001 to show how transitions have changed for people between the
ages of 18 and 34.

It found that overall the transition to
adulthood in 2001 was delayed and elongated compared with that
in 1971 – it took young adults longer to achieve independence;
they were leaving school later, staying longer in their parents'
home, entering the labour market later, and postponing marriage
and childbearing.

As before, young women in 2001 were
generally making life transitions earlier than young men but
they, too, were often making different transitions at different
times than they did 30 years earlier.

The study examined five transitions that
many young people make on their way to adulthood: leaving
school; leaving their parents' home; having full-time work;
entering relationships, and having children.

In each generation, women were in
general more likely than men to leave home, marry and have
children at a younger age. Men in both generations generally
left school earlier and had full-time employment at a younger
age than women.

On average, a 25-year-old in 2001 had
gone through the same number of transitions as a 22-year-old in
1971. A 30-year-old in the later generation averaged the same
number of transitions as a 25-year-old in the earlier
generation.

In recent years, both young men and
women have delayed many transitions. For example, in 2001, half
of all 22-year-olds were still in school. Only one in five had a
partner (usually common-law), and one in 11 had children.

In 1971, three-quarters of young adults
at the age of 22 had left school. Nearly half were married and
one in four had children.

As well, in 2001, the time between
transitions had increased, stretching the process from the late
teens to the early 30s. Youth in 1971 packed more life
transitions into the years from their late teens to mid-20s and
fewer transitions into their early 30s.

You (Ottawa Mens
Centre.com, from Ottawa home of Canada's corrupt
family court judges, Canada) wrote: Kids
need both parents, not “single parent homes”, “two
mothers” or “two fathers”. Kids learn best with a
mother and a father. Problem is every since Pierre
Trudeau decided the government had no place in the
bedrooms of the nation, divorce has become a rubber
stamp and it has effectively promoted marriage
destruction. It can all be changed with a legal
presumption of equal parenting after separation. All
Mr. Harper or any politician needs to do to save
Canada’s future, that is, Canada’s future children
is to legislate a legal presumption of equal
parenting after divorce or after separation. Kids
really are slower growing up now because a family
with a mother and a father is now a minority group.
Its now more popular to be seen to be a single or
gay parent then is to be in a heterosexual family
relationship. Federal and provincial governments
effectively promote marriage destruction by
providing tax benefits for those who destroy
marriage while penalizing generally fathers to such
an extent that large numbers of males are unable or
unwilling to remarry and have more children which is
probably the primary reason why Canada has a
negative population growth but it appears that all
our politicians would rather bury their heads in the
sand with politically correct ideas than face up to
the reality that the population of Canada is
decreasing which cannot continue. Just when is Mr.
Harper going to raise the issue of mandatory equal
parenting after divorce? www.OttawaMensCentre.com
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